Stories categorised in 'Postwar Years'. These stories may contain references to other themes.
Surrender by the Japanese was imminent, and so was information on some of our futures - I was in a group...
The Cassino War Cemetery is situated close by the base of the height of Monte Cassino just a mile south of...
On 16 April my very good friend Leslie Gilbert and I attended a Passover service at the Marittima ballroom...
Because then the builders representives and our committee got together, and a joint deputation was sent to...
Over the next 4 years I visited my grandmother Jean as often as I could, sometimes with my wife and...
The cemetery is on land given by the German nation to the British War Graves Commission. The ceremonies...
Introductory note This is the first part of a personal memoir of my experiences, discoveries and beliefs...
1969 Request for Henry machine drawing by Leasco Systems and Research Company to be included in the summer...
In my conversations with him I told him briefly of what I had learnt and he agreed with the opinion that my...
In 1998 they had tried yet again to find Barry for research for Bernard's exhibition but with so many...
The baby's father was a Canadian soldier by the name of Ewart Robert Reginald Flintoff. Ewart Robert...
In August 1946 Stan Wrighton, myself and two others on a forty-eight-hour pass visited the Mohne Dam, and...
During training a Sgt of the Para's came looking for volunteers, 3 mates and I volunteered when they...
The Saturday dances in Stockton Middlesbrough and Darlington could become quite riotous at times with us...
Almighty God, who rulest over the Kingdoms of the World, send down Thy grace upon GEORGE, Thy Servant our...
The Navy realised that the ships had to be out to the Far East for the attack on Japan. I went down...
In May 1997 my mother and my brother John, with his son, also James Brian, went to Damme to meet Wilfried...
I had very little information to go on but I provided the name of the family and the only other fact, there...
Part of this can be read in Nel's Story: Part I: Looming War: Indonesia 1942, where my mother tells how...
Fifty-six years after the crash, she flew to Cheshire, England. Three years later, an email enquiry arrived...
L/cpl Cowell, followed by his sergeant, William Chick, headed towards the minefield. See a photograph of...
I get over there and asked a couple of soldiers where the camps were,they told me to go down this road to...
After a lot of hard work by Jos Koolwijk in Holland and Fred, Frank and myself in England we managed to...
The train then rolled along until we got to the Russian British sector. As the Russians demanded for the...
Books, magazines and newspaper articles going back to the 1930’s conveyed his diverse preoccupations...
Berlin was divided, like Germany, and in 1948 the Russians imposed the Berlin Blockade, sealing off all...
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